R+P Post 31: My call sheet

During the process of creating the shootboard, we realised we needed some form of call sheet. Thus, we decided to integrate it with the shootboard, in order to enhance the 'all-in-one' function of the shootboard. We sat down with Tom Brown, the only cast member (outside of the extraordinary circumstance and set-up of the party scene) who isn't part of our media group, and talked with him about his timetable. We had previously also confirmed with Lily Mo Browne that she could be our make-up artist- thus we also sat down with her and went over when she was free too. We implemented their concerns into our call sheet and storyboard, and marked down whenever they were free to shoot and do make-up, or just available to help out on set even if they weren't needed to fulfil their primary roles.

A used copy of the front page of the shootboard, showing the integrated callsheet at the top. We made sure each cast member had one of these before the shoot, and we put copies of them all around the studio during the shoot so that after people arrived they could see when they were first needed and so on. Click to enlarge.

Creating a call sheet was an important step, as it helped us organise some elements of our shoot less under our control, but still vital to our video- both Tom and Lily are outside of our media group, and don't even do A2 Media, yet have fairly major roles in the shooting process. It allowed us to provide necessary information to these people, so that they could be available when we needed them to be- we gave each of them a copy of the finished shootboard with integrated call sheet so that they could have all of the information they needed, in regards to availability and location and time and so on.